1. Turkish Journal of Maritime and Marine Sciences publication language is either Turkish or English, however publications submitted in Turkish should have an English abstract. This Journal is published twice a year.
2. Submitted work shouldn't have been published before (except as oral and poster presentation), the copyright of the work shouldn't have been transferred to anywhere and the work shouldn't be under review in another journal for publication.
3. The type of the submitted work (original research, brief report, technical notes and review) must be indicated.
4. It will not be published elsewhere in English, in Turkish or in any other language, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.
5. It is important for the submission file to be saved in the valid format of the template of word processor used.
6. References of information must be indicated.
7. To avoid unnecessary errors, you are strongly advised to use the ‘spell-check’ and ‘grammar-check’ functions of your word processor.
8. Author(s) is/are fully responsible for his/her/their works published in the Journal.
9. A work submitted to the Journal is forwarded to the publishing committee by the editor and evaluated by two or more referees selected by this committee. A work must be approved by the publishing committee and the referees in terms of both scientific content and writing format in order to be accepted for publication. A work rejected for publication is returned to the author(s). A work for which the referee or the editors requested any revisions is sent back to the author(s) for correction according to the given comments and suggestions. Author(s) has/have to convince the publishing committee and the referee(s) about the comments and the suggestions he/she/they disagree(s) with while giving the necessary explanations. Depending on the revision by the author(s) and/or the referee reports for publication, publishing committee decides whether the work is accepted or rejected.
10. A work accepted for publication is sent to the author(s) for the final control before publishing in order to rewrite it according to writing style and format of the Journal. Finally, author(s) approved version of the work is queued for publishing.
11.  A person may have two works, as a first author, at most in the same issue.
12. Articles submitted for a possible publication in the journal have been checked with iThenticate or Turnitin program to compose similarity report since July 1, 2017. This report is sent to the editorial board to be checked. If the program detects more than 20 percentage similarity except that the references, the editorial board requests the revisions from the authors. If the necessary changes does not make in 30 days, the article is declined. If the similarity rate is very high, the article is declined, too.
13. Authors are obliged to comply with the TRJMMS Submission Policy.
14. TRJMMS does not charge any article submission or processing charges.

All authors of the article must sign the “Article Copyright Transfer Agreement” stating that they are transferring the publishing rights of the paper to Turkish Journal of Maritime and Marine Sciences and send it to the e-mail address, (trjmms@hotmail.com), together with the final version of the article.